Photo above shows the recipients in attendence of the Australian Affinity Awards for the year 2004. (from right to left, Roger Bayley, Peter, Ann Colreavy, Hanan Dover, Bishop Kevin Manning, Prof. Gary Bouma, and Ibrahim Din.)
Posted on 07/31/2007 3:24:41 PM PDT by indcons
Australia's first Muslim telephone helpline is being launched in Sydney today.
The crisis hotline is part of a pilot project being run by the Muslim health charity Mission of Hope.
Helpline director Hanan Dover says there has long been a need for a crisis line for Muslims staffed by Muslim counsellors.
"They feel more comfortable with accessing Muslim health service providers because of the stigma that's attached to being Muslim," she said.
Ms Dover says while Muslim Australians have the same mental health issues as others, they feel more alienated since events such as September 11.
"They don't feel very trustworthy towards a lot of the authority figures, especially considering the latest issue with Doctor Mohamed Haneef," she said.
The helpline will initially cover New South Wales, with some access for other states.
No one forced them to go there.
Photo above shows the recipients in attendence of the Australian Affinity Awards for the year 2004. (from right to left, Roger Bayley, Peter, Ann Colreavy, Hanan Dover, Bishop Kevin Manning, Prof. Gary Bouma, and Ibrahim Din.)
Hanan Dover is an Australian Muslim who is an active member of the Muslim Mental Health Group.
She gained her Bachelors of Social Science (Psychology), a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, and is currently finishing her Masters in psychology at the University of Western Sydney.
As well as being a counselor and director of Mission of Hope (an Islamic Counseling/Health service for Muslims), Hanan is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Western Sydney. She is the co-coordinator and founder of the Australian Society of Islamic Psychology, is a member of the international board of trustees of the International Association of Muslim Psychologists. She is an intern-psychologist with the New South Wales Psychology Registration Board.
Hanan Dover gives monthly talks to Muslim females on mental health issues at the UMA Center.
http://www.islamonline.net/QuestionApplication/English/Guestcv.asp?hMuftiID=105
http://www.zip.com.au/~josken/islamf~1.htm
“Islam & Homosexuality, an Islamic, Scientific and Logical Approach”
SPEAKERS:
Hanan Dover,
Lecturer in psychology, University of Western Sydney (suspended)
Muslim help line huh? So, if a Muslim woman is getting her brains beat out by her husband, she can now call for help?
I don’t know, sounds pretty heretical.
“Hello, Helpline? Yes, I have two questions. Is it permissible to substitute a green-white wire for the green one? And how many pounds of nails are sufficient for a typical open-air market?”
You got it all wrong. It goes like this.
Hello, my name is Sahir. My sister went to the market to buy tomatoes without a male escort. We want to strangle her but we don’t have any rope. We could drown her in the bathtub but that is a special place as you know the men wash their feet there.
Can you help our family get some rope so we can salvage our honor.
Thank you.
“They [non-Muslims] feel more comfortable with accessing non-Muslim health service providers because of the stigma that’s attached to being infidel,” she said.
"I strolled past the bar mitzvah five times, but my fuse wouldn't stay lit!"
Clearly sounds like a certified nutjob if she is looking for “Islamic approaches.” Psst...Hanan, there are NONE.
islamic approach?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/016703.php
CAIRO: Ali Gomaa, Egypt’s top Mufti, requested that all Islamic institutions put a unified standard to which all sheikhs in the world should adhere, when it comes to issuing fatwas, reported Al-Ahram Daily newspaper.
Gomaa made the request three days ago during a conference that brought together members of Dar El Ift (house of fatwa, religious edicts) yesterday in Kuwait.
The conference, titled “Issuing Fatwas in the Open World,” is expected to run for three days, said Al-Ahram.
Gomaa himself is the author of a controversial book which claimed that Prophet Mohammed’s (PBUH) companions used to drink his urine, considering it a blessed act, as reported by Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper.
Gomaa stuck to his position despite criticism, claiming that everything which emanated from the Prophet is pure and sacred.
“We hope that we will no longer have to see another fake and incorrect fatwa similar to those that have been released recently about breastfeeding adult men and the Prophet’s Mohammed’s (PBUH) urine,” Sheikh Mohmoud Ashour, former deputy of Al Azhar and member of the Islamic Research Center, told The Daily Star Egypt.
“If implemented properly [Gomaa’s recommendation] will prevent fatwas from becoming a business not a science as it should be,” Ashour said pointing to the sheikhs who appear on TV and profit from making controversial and incorrect fatwas.
“A person who issues a fatwa should be qualified to do so. He should be honest and careful with every fatwa he releases,” Ashour said.
Gomaa’s request came a week after Sheikh Ezzat Atiya, president of the Hadith (Prophet Mohamed’s (PBUH) Sayings) department at Al-Azhar University, issued the breastfeeding fatwa in which he had drawn on Islamic traditions which forbid sexual relations between a men and a women who had breastfed him, to suggest that symbolic breastfeeding could be a way round the strict segregation of males and females.
The resultant controversy led to an apology and withdrawal from Atiya that was followed by Al-Azhar’s decision to suspend him and refer him to a disciplinary committee.
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